Massie Block

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    Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
    —Allan Massie (b. 1938)

    Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
    Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
    Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
    All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
    All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
    Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.
    Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)